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Hannibal; ReviewI was somewhat surprised to see the drubbing this novel has received in reviews here on Amazon. After two novels which featured Hannibal Lecter in an ancillary role, Thomas Harris finally decided to make Hannibal the central character and explore his psyche and history thoroughly, and apparently many readers would rather not know what makes the man tick. Perhaps this is the case because in doing so, Harris has made Hannibal more tragic than evil, and people are upset that their villain is no longer a mere caricature.
Actually, it should come as no surprise that Hannibal is more complicated than a mere one-dimensional monster. Harris has simply given this character the same treatment as he did Francis Dolarhyde and Jame Gumb in the first two novels, namely to examine the sources of the psychopathology which lead the characters to commit their crimes. Incidentally, "Silence of the Lambs" gave some insight into the strained psychology of Clarice Starling as well, foreshadowing the development of her character in the present novel. The result was to show both Hannibal and Clarice as being more complex than unremittingly evil on the one hand, or as a valiant heroine on the other. In my opinion, this has the effect of making the characters more realistic, and such psychological realism is the source of the real horror in these novels. Monsters do not arise from nowhere, but are created by a confluence of personality and events. Virtue can be a channeling of and compensation for anger and pain, and that virtue can be subverted to something darker under the right circumstances. In short, everyday people have the potential to be a sinner or a saint, and the dividing line is not so clear as we are comfortable in imagining.
Making a character's actions understandable does not make them defensible, however, and therein is a problem for some readers. By making Hannibal Lecter understandable and plausible, Harris has appeared, to some, to justify Hannibal's behavior. I do not think this is the case. Rather, Harris has raised the disturbing possibility that Hannibal Lecter represents what violence and trauma can produce: a victim who in turn becomes the taker of victims to a superlative degree. This is disturbing to some readers because there is no clear victory of good over evil, but instead there is a certain moral murkiness about it. This supposed weakness of the novel is in fact one of its strengths in that it reflects the moral ambiguity that exists so often in reality. Seldom are things as black and white as we would like them to be but are instead various shades of grey. This book has done an admirable job in presenting that.Hannibal; Overview

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